and do some other stuff too, sometimes

January 10, 2015 — 5:04 AM UTC

So, Terraform is a cool infrastructure-as-code system with a boatload of functionality. It makes building out entire clouds on AWS super easy and super fun. I am a fan. I started my new job as Lead Platform Engineer at Leaf this week, and I was really happy to have the chance to use Terraform in a greenfield project where I could play with it.

My name's Ed, and I run a little devops consultancy; my thing is making other developers better and making the systems I oversee smarter, faster, and more reliable.

But I'm a human first. So I'm more interested in that. Tech is part of but not all of my life, and I'd rather talk to you about books or music or video games than about code or rapid deployment. I sometimes write about those things when they're interesting, but I'm much more into the questions of how we as technologists can be better citizens and contributors to society.

Some friends and I also do some goofy video stuff, which you can find on Twitch and YouTube.